On the turbo car? If yes, I say absolutely get rid of it. Simplicity will make your life so much easier.

Possibly. I rarely use my a/c down here as it is, and I'm moving this year, too. One thing I constantly think about is how much longer will my 23 year old a/c system continue to function properly and whether or not it's worth doing the change.

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I was quoted about $300 to have my local miata shop switch my 92's AC to r134. I passed on it and just would put down side windows and unzip the rear window. The only time I really would have liked AC is when I was stuck in stop and go traffic on the interstate. As long as I was moving I was fine.

Bryce was able to do it using a collection of NA8 parts and it seems to work alright. I'm all hardtop now, so no rear window venting for me.

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what's wrong with just using r-12? Oh, another reason to slow your build?

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You have to actually find it, then find a shop that is still willing to fill your car with it. Neither are easy to do, I tried that route myself.

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oh, that hasn't even been an issue for me here. Trong will always do it for me, just did in October. I'm all full on freon.

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Was it actually r12 or the stuff that claims it is compatible with r12? I have found plenty of people who sell "r12" and it is really just the stuff that is compatible. That stuff will slowly eat away o-rings and you will have leaks again.

This ^

Damn Brain, you've been on a war path lately. Are you actually developing a testosterone level?

I haven't maxxed it out, but I'm up to something like 5 or 6 gigs total with only about 3 used. It's easy to do yourself- just create a virtual machine and a disposable email address and invite yourself. Rinse & repeat.

I never realized this was an option. It dynamically expands as you upload video, and then doesn't shrink again afterwards?

exactly that. it's like the hulk's pants.

and btw "UNIVAC" was just a placeholder name for my computer. I irrationally didn't want to share the real name.

Plenty of space to build a locost. Of course, you won't have the time or money anymore...

Locost and lemons/chump car will be made in that garage in the next year.

The plan is to furnish the house to a bachelors level. So cheap table in kitchen. Couch in front of the fire place. Desk in my room with bed. Then on to buying **** for the garage. Tool wise I need a good air compressor, HF band saw, then the plasma cutter. After I have those I will go on to sealing the floor with some sort of epoxy. After tools and floor is coated hopefully I will be getting a Max Jax lift for the garage. While it wont be able to take cars up to high, it should be much better then jack stands.

Edit: The first thing that will be purchased after getting into the house will be a kitten. As a mod on MT I think that is required.

I did the periodic table for my IP scheme. xxx.1 and xxx.2 and wireless devices named "Hydrogen" and "Helium" accordingly. My VM Host and lab boxes are all Period 6 heavy metals and my networking gear are noble gasses.

The only place I broke from this scheme is the management NIC in my network tap box. It's named "Mordor" and it lives on xxx.254

When we are speaking of concepts such as entropy, decay, thermodynamics, etc., we speak of open systems, closed systems, and isolated systems.

Is the universe itself a closed system? Is it isolated?

What happens after all of the hydrogen contained in all the stars in the universe is fully converted? Does the second law of thermodynamics still apply at this scale? What would actually happen if the universe did reach complete thermodynamic equilibrium- could matter continue to exist?

It has been posited that the universe is expanding. If the universe is the sum total of all space, then what space is it expanding into? For the universe to be said to expand, it must be bounded by a finite physical shape. What shape is the universe? How can the universe even have a shape if nothing exists beyond it? How can "nothing" even exist?

When we are speaking of concepts such as entropy, decay, thermodynamics, etc., we speak of open systems, closed systems, and isolated systems.

Is the universe itself a closed system? Is it isolated?

What happens after all of the hydrogen contained in all the stars in the universe is fully converted? Does the second law of thermodynamics still apply at this scale? What would actually happen if the universe did reach complete thermodynamic equilibrium- could matter continue to exist?

It has been posited that the universe is expanding. If the universe is the sum total of all space, then what space is it expanding into? For the universe to be said to expand, it must be bounded by a finite physical shape. What shape is the universe? How can the universe even have a shape if nothing exists beyond it? How can "nothing" even exist?

The unknowable is not the unpossible.

since you can't accurately characterize the entire system "the universe", you can't make assertions about its size or isolation or even its closedness. There could be matter sinks or sources you can't know and account for by using designed-for-earth equations.

I guess what I'm really trying to say is: forget this problem, go get laid.

I take any of THOSE "facts" about the universe with a grain of salt; anything we say here on earth with our earth-based calculations, science and knowledge may be completely different somewhere else outside of our solar system, so to make claims based off of a super powerful telescope is anything but.